| Prop. 8 Challenge Filed in Federal Court - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 May 09
  

  Adam Bohannon

  prop8 politics lgbt humanrights

  • Theodore B.  Olson, the U.S. solicitor general from 2001 to 2004 under  President George W. Bush, and David Boies, a high-profile  trial lawyer who argued on behalf of former vice  president Al Gore, filed the suit May 22 in U.S.  district court on behalf of two California gay couples.
  • The attorneys  argue that relegating same-sex couples to domestic  partnerships instead of granting them full marriage rights  is a violation of the equal protection and due process  clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.  Constitution.

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